Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Who is Walter Sinnott-Armstrong?

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is an American philosopher. He specializes in ethics, epistemology, and more recently in neuroethics, the philosophy of law, and the philosophy of cognitive science. He is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University under Ruth Barcan Marcus, and taught for many years at Dartmouth College, before moving to Duke.

His Moral Skepticisms defends the view that we do not have fully adequate responses to the moral skeptic. It also defends a coherentist moral epistemology, which he has defended for decades. His Morality Without God? endorses the moral philosophy of his former colleague Bernard Gert as an alternative to religious views of morality.

In 1999, he debated William Lane Craig in a debate 'God? A Debate Between A Christian and An Atheist'.